LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Beauty can be understood only through metaphysics
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Anything that is intellectual cannot be beautiful
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Beauty is missing from the world
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The source of beauty cannot be known, and that beauty can only be felt
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Detailed explanation-1: -The central idea of “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” is that there is a spiritual power that stands apart from both the physical world and the heart of man.
Detailed explanation-2: -The beauty of nature is the key to your soul It is the “beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies” that transcend a lonely person’s being. The whole of nature fits Shelley’s idea of beauty. This notion of the grandeur of the outdoors is persistent throughout all her work.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Stanza V, Shelley confesses that as a boy, while he was searching for spiritual reality (chiefly by reading Gothic romances, it would appear), the shadow of Intellectual Beauty suddenly fell on him. He shrieked and clasped his hands in ecstasy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tone of Hymn to the Intellectual Beauty-While the initial lines depicts the poet appreciating the presence of the Spirit, the concluding lines shows a more confident poet who knows that the Spirit is present and has blessed him, as without it, even death will be a curse.